14. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 14: Reconstruction in South Carolina

**Quiz for Document 14.1: Colored People’s Convention of South Carolina, Memorial to Congress (1865)**

Quiz for Document 14.1: Colored People’s Convention of South Carolina, Memorial to Congress (1865)

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1. The memorial to Congress from the Colored People’s Convention of South Carolina supports which of the following conclusions?

The freedpeople who made up this group’s membership still had a great deal to learn about the Constitution and American democracy.

The freedpeople who made up this group’s membership were already knowledgeable about the Constitution and their civil rights as Americans.

South Carolina’s freed slaves had little awareness about the institutions of American life that existed outside the deep South.

South Carolina’s freed slaves appreciated their freedom and sought special rights to compensate them for their years of slavery.

2. In their memorial to Congress, the Colored People’s Convention of South Carolina implied that

they regarded themselves as fully equal to whites but recognized that many whites might disagree.

they regarded themselves as fully equal to whites and expected that most whites would agree with them.

they were still inferior to whites but were willing to strive to bring themselves up to the level of white civilization.

they were still inferior to whites and recognized that even equal social and economic treatment might not improve them sufficiently.

3. What can the reader infer about why the Colored People’s Convention of South Carolina submitted this appeal to Congress in 1865?

They feared black-on-white violence in the wake of the Union victory and the emancipation of South Carolina’s slaves.

They suspected that slave owners would refuse to emancipate their slaves even after the official end of the Civil War.

They believed that white men in South Carolina would drive away or kill any black man who was elected to a leadership position.

They anticipated the development of a legal system in which whites and blacks were afforded different rights and restrictions.

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